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...figure worldwide in these efforts, and the more we learned about his work, the more we were convinced that he was the right person for our tenth anniversary award.” The annual award was created in 2001. Past winners include actor Harrison Ford, primatologist Jane Goodall, and Edward O. Wilson, one of Harvard’s 21 University professors. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...casualty of this maneuvering will be Gen. George Casey, the president's nominee to be Army Chief of Staff. Casey doesn't look like a great chief in the making - he is no Edward "Shy" Meyer or Eric Shinseki - and his performance in his confirmation hearing last week was at times underwhelming. But Casey isn't in trouble with Democrats for his lack of finesse; he's in trouble for having too much. Some Democrats think he should have stood up months ago and proclaimed Iraq policy a disaster. They say he should have stepped out of the chain...
...names from the telephone directory than by the Harvard faculty. When Neil Rudenstine took an unprecedented medical leave early on in his presidency, editorialists opinioned on the impossibility of one man holding the reins of so fractious an entity as the modern university. And as early as 1769, Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, Harvard’s 11th President, and who next to Eliot served in the office longest, famously remarked on his deathbed, “If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard College.” And even Larry Summers...
...House this week now moves to the Senate, where Democrats have a slim 51-49 majority. Wednesday’s vote showed glimmers of bipartisanship—229 Democrats voted for the bill along with 57 Republicans. Two Democrats and 138 Republicans voted against it. And Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, issued a statement saying the reframing of the Pell Grant debate “shows how a Democratic Congress is changing the nation’s priorities...
...offices and several more packages were found, officials said. The packages were found in locations ranging from a comic book store on Harvard Street to the New England Medical Center. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, along with Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 and Police Commissioner Edward Davis, held a press conference at the Unified Command Center in Boston, where the mayor urged citizens to “treat suspicious devices with care.” Davis said that those responsible for placing the “devices” could be subject to a prison term...